¡Hola! This fourth course will introduce new vocabularies in the areas of dining, fashion, professions and careers and will bring you ever closer to the 500 word threshold for beginning Spanish. The course will also introduce the subjunctive and the future tense so that you can begin to speak about future events, things they desire and pursuing professional goals. This is the final course before you will undertake a project that showcases your mastery of basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar.

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Module 1: Talking About Cafés and Restaurants

This module is all about going out and having fun at cafés and restaurants. You’ll build your Spanish vocabulary in these areas as well as learn useful phrases for ordering and inquiring about food at restaurants. We’ll discuss how to use both formal and informal commands, how to make requests, suggestions, and polite refusals using the subjunctive tense, as well as some useful expressions when going out in public. We’ll also interact with a local Mexican restaurant owner from Davis, CA in the Perspectivas section.

Taught By

Dr. Robert Blake

Transcript

[MUSIC] Now it really gets complicated, most verbs entail using reflexive, direct, or indirect object pronouns. You've seen these before, me, te, se/le/lo etc. Attach these pronouns at the end of an affirmative command, but you'll need to add a written accent to preserve the original stress pattern of the verb. For negative commands, put the object pronouns in between the no and the verb. The order is always the same, you're only going to have one or two pronouns in combination. You'll never have three, but the order is going to be reflexive pronouns first, indirect object pronoun second, and direct object pronouns third. So let's look at some situations and what you might say. So to command buying or not buying an item you'd say, compreselo, or in the negative, no se lo compre. Informally you'd say, compratelo, or in the negative, no te lo compres. How about to command taking or not taking your pills? Those are pastillas. So formally you'd say, tomeselas, [COUGH], and negatively you'd say, no se las tome. Informally you'd say tomatelas, or negatively, no te las tomes. To command eating or not eating, for instance a piece of pizza, which would be la pizza. Formally you'd say, comasela, or negatively, no se la coma. Informally, you'd say cometela, or negatively, no te la comas. To command, are not having a good time, which is the verb divertirse. You would say formerly, diviertase mucho, or if you want to discourage that, no se divierta tanto. Informally, you'd say diviertete mucho, or to discourage it, no te diviertas tanto. To command something to be brought to you or not brought to you, you would say formally, traigamelo, or to discourage that, no me lo traiga. Informally, you'd say, traemelo, or negatively you'd say, no me lo traigas. To command that someone puts on their shoes or not puts on their shoes, formally you'd say, pongaselos, and negatively, no se los ponga. Informally, you'd say pontelos, and negatively, no te los pongas. It's very complicated, and you will only learn to use the informal and formal commands with lots of practice, and through real exchanges with Spanish-speaking people in a real context, so be patient.

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